On this episode of the King's Guide, Chuck takes a ride in Mark Schafhausen's Bucker Jungmann biplane, which has an incredible history you won't believe. (Watch the episode here: BUCKER JUNGMANN
The plane was once owned by the stunt pilot…
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Aug 4, 2025
On this episode of the King's Guide, Chuck takes a ride in Mark Schafhausen's Bucker Jungmann biplane, which has an incredible history you won't believe. (Watch the episode here: BUCKER JUNGMANN
The plane was once owned by the stunt pilot…
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Jun 1, 2025
It's against the law, and common sense, to ride in a barrel over Spokane Falls. But over 100 years ago, a daredevil by the name of Captain Paul Webb arrived in town with audacious plans to ride the falls in…
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May 13, 2025
How do urban myths get lodged into local culture? Hard to say sometimes, but when they do, they’re often stuck forever.
Chuck King’s family claimed they were related to Jesse James. But were they? Uh… No.
Today we're over at…
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May 1, 2025
Today on the King’s Guide, we're over at the Boulevard Building at the corner of Monroe and Indiana at Northwest Boulevard. This interesting triangular shaped building was built in 1910 by Olaf Lillequist. By 1915, the Boulevard was sold, and…
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Apr 20, 2025
Did you know? The Hamilton Studio was once the auditorium and gymnasium for the Saint Joseph School and Church. But this wasn't the first school building on this property. A two story wooden building, which was originally behind the church,…
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Apr 15, 2025
On this episode of The King's Guide, we're at the corner of Hamilton and Indiana. We're focusing on the southwest corner where a Starbucks coffeehouse was recently built. Chuck has a personal connection to this corner, but we'll get to…
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Mar 6, 2025
Have you ever been to the Army surplus store? In our recent then and now segment on North Division (see our previous post), our historical photo had a two story brick building in the background. It turned out that the…
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Feb 12, 2025
Here, near the end of the Cable Road is a historic Charles and Elsie Thomas house at the corner of Boone and Summit Boulevard. The Thomas House was built over a decade after the cable line was converted to electric…
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Jan 27, 2025
On today’s episode of the King’s Guide, we’re continuing our series with Jess Walter on his historical novel, “The Cold Millions”. This is Part 5 in the series, which you can watch on our YouTube channel here: The Cold Millions…
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Jan 10, 2025
On this short episode of the King's Guide, Chuck visits the old site of the Sharp Castle, or “Castle Sharp”, at 702 W Sharp Ave in Spokane.
There was once a castle on this rock! The home here was…
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